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Restaurant Tampering With My Dr Pepper?
Wyatt Earp
Member Posts: 5,871
In my car wash business I have made a lot of enemies, chewed out a lot of people, some of them local.
I was in the habit of getting a Dr Pepper at the same local drive-in chain restuarant every day for years. About 2 months ago I started getting sick just about every time after I went there for my DP. At first I just chalked it up to, well, nothing unusual.
But then I began to narrow it down, I was only getting sick after going to this small town drive-in restaurant. So stopped going there for over a month - never got sick once. I kept going to the same chain drive-in, but in a larger city nearby for my DP...never got sick.
So, today I decided I was being paranoid about the whole thing and I went to the local one again for a DP. Here I am, up late, sick. Some of the employees there are people I've chewed out at my car wash in the past. Keep in mind this is a 2,000 population town and everyone knows who I am by my pickup...in fact the carhop today said "Oh, I haven't seen you here in awhile."
I still have about 1/3 a cup of their now watered down DP setting in front of me. Will the police test it for....* fluids, or do I have to pay for that myself?
I was in the habit of getting a Dr Pepper at the same local drive-in chain restuarant every day for years. About 2 months ago I started getting sick just about every time after I went there for my DP. At first I just chalked it up to, well, nothing unusual.
But then I began to narrow it down, I was only getting sick after going to this small town drive-in restaurant. So stopped going there for over a month - never got sick once. I kept going to the same chain drive-in, but in a larger city nearby for my DP...never got sick.
So, today I decided I was being paranoid about the whole thing and I went to the local one again for a DP. Here I am, up late, sick. Some of the employees there are people I've chewed out at my car wash in the past. Keep in mind this is a 2,000 population town and everyone knows who I am by my pickup...in fact the carhop today said "Oh, I haven't seen you here in awhile."
I still have about 1/3 a cup of their now watered down DP setting in front of me. Will the police test it for....* fluids, or do I have to pay for that myself?
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A local KFC was, or almost was shut down due to health issues, one of them was mold on the fountain nozzels.
Fountain drinks cant be tainted by mold if the nozzels are not cleaned.
A local KFC was, or almost was shut down due to health issues, one of them was mold on the fountain nozzels.
+10,00000 and/or the ice machines is molded and thus the ice has traces of mold. Most people never make the connection.
Have a friend go with you and claim he is from an independant lab and there to preserve the custody chain of evidence.
State you have been getting sick and want it to stop or you will sue.
Offer them one chance to fess up or you will sue & own the joint.
Careful doing that or you could find the restaurant owning you.
Do some research. Dr. Pepper is not good for anyone.
Only real course of action. Worked for the Texas Dept. of Health for 30 years. You wouldn't believe some of the stories I could tell you.
In addition to the mold issue, you may have someone tampering with you DP. Then you would own them. Thats a real possibility since you stated that people who work there don't like you.
Why you would go back the final time to get sick again is beyond me. [xx(]
quote:State Dept of Health.
Only real course of action. Worked for the Texas Dept. of Health for 30 years. You wouldn't believe some of the stories I could tell you.
Do tell!!
I like stories[:o)]
SO far as you chewing people out and making enemies hell, I can be sacastically defensive and it gets the same results. I just love some people, they can say whatever they want but don't you try it.
Is it the same person working there every time you stop or do they all have issues with you? I'm betting with the guys who suspect the machines or the ice. It just seems more likely.
The problem is my wife gets a large vanilla cream DP at the same time and she doesn't get sick. I'm embarassed to admit that I went there often enough that they know exactly which drink is mine. In fact, several times when I press the button to order, they told me my order rather than me telling them.
One of the carhops I posted a security cam pic of here awhile back as I caught him dumping a tire. Another carhop there I had a really loud shouting match with and finally told her to leave and not come back after she kept letting her toddler run loose around the parking lot and nearly got ran over by a pickup.
Start drinking only rain water or pure grain alcohol.
I don't know how they do things in DQ......
Neal
They're familiar having their food spit in and will know exactly what to do...
I got a hot dog at a hamburger chain several years ago that had a chewed up toothpick in it. I showed it to the cashier and she asked me if I wanted another hot dog. I didn't want to call her a stupid * so I just left. I hope I still have enough self control to do that again, but I don't think I'd just drop the subject next time.
quote:Originally posted by oldnbald
quote:State Dept of Health.
Only real course of action. Worked for the Texas Dept. of Health for 30 years. You wouldn't believe some of the stories I could tell you.
Do tell!!
I like stories[:o)]
me too
If you were getting coffee next to a lube joint I'd think you were getting a squirt of hydraulic fluid...will do the same thing.
I agree, go to the Dept of Health, but DO NOT say it was a personal attack. Just say you've been getting sick and narrowed it down, and give your full story and suspicions. It may be that they have other evidence on this shop.
Good luck. Try not to chew so many people out. You'll feel better. [:D]
Here in SC you can report a restaurant if there is a problem . Dept. of health and enviromental control will investigate. Could be a public health issue. They also do report cards on food establishments that they put on the entrance doors. If you see anything less than an A go eat somewhere else. There report cards are published on TV each week.
Send a trusted friend through tomorrow, and have him/her get a Dr. Pepper, easy ice. Video entire transaction from afar.
You then go through the next day, order your usual, and have the camera running until you hand the soda to someone who helps you seal it with duct tape. (Chain of evidence here)
Take it to Health Dept. and ask if either has been tampered with-explain sickness, etc.; but do not mention "enemies" or anything stupid like that.
If not tampered with, check with health dept. about when last inspection was, and if "ice worms" or "line loogies" were found.
Most places don't care to break down the entire hose system, or clean the entire ice machine, so chances are high that you've been attacked by bugs in your soda, crap from the lines, or ice worms from a nasty ice machine.
You can taste mold can't you?
Why have you made a lot of enemies in your car wash business?
Why have you made a lot of enemies in your car wash business?
Was it a Dublin Dr, Pepper?
You just had to bring that up........[:(]
Sounds like the old "VISINE" trick,to me..
Exactly what came to mind as I read this thread. A little goes a long way from what I have heard. No personal experience...Mark
Why have you made a lot of enemies in your car wash business?
My car wash was known to be the best around, by a wide margin. I didn't tolerate a lot of crap and thus people told me they'd drive past 7 car washes 30 miles from a larger city to use my wash.
In order to have 50 people a month say good things about my car wash, I had to have 1 or 2 think I was a pri## for being too picky. I didn't allow nails or broken beer bottles to be washed out of pickup beds, I didn't allow the center pivot guy to clean a flatbed trailer load of greasy gearheads, etc.
The business model worked very well - I did far above the national average in a town of 2,000 people, when even my banker said this town would never support the nice wash I was building. He admitted his mistake 5 years later as he was loaning me another $250,000 to expand. [:D]
Anywho, my first job was a carhop at an A&W when I was 14. Then I was a cook there. I can tell you with no hesitation that most guys who never worked in a restaurant, would be shocked to know how much spit or snot yoi've ingested. It would take something as slight as a customer being a little curt while ordering his Papa Burger, to get spit on his burger, or to have a cook stick his hand down his pants, rub his crotch, then wipe his hand on that customer's hamburger patty as everyone in the kitchen laughed. Trust me, this happens a LOT, and it's why I'm NEVER rude at the drive-thru.
So, it's not hard to imagine that some minimum wage cook who I banned from my car wash, would seek revenge.
quote:Originally posted by mlincoln
Why have you made a lot of enemies in your car wash business?
My car wash was known to be the best around, by a wide margin. I didn't tolerate a lot of crap and thus people told me they'd drive past 7 car washes 30 miles from a larger city to use my wash.
In order to have 50 people a month say good things about my car wash, I had to have 1 or 2 think I was a pri## for being too picky. I didn't allow nails or broken beer bottles to be washed out of pickup beds, I didn't allow the center pivot guy to clean a flatbed trailer load of greasy gearheads, etc.
The business model worked very well - I did far above the national average in a town of 2,000 people, when even my banker said this town would never support the nice wash I was building. He admitted his mistake 5 years later as he was loaning me another $250,000 to expand. [:D]
Anywho, my first job was a carhop at an A&W when I was 14. Then I was a cook there. I can tell you with no hesitation that most guys who never worked in a restaurant, would be shocked to know how much spit or snot yoi've ingested. It would take something as slight as a customer being a little curt while ordering his Papa Burger, to get spit on his burger, or to have a cook stick his hand down his pants, rub his crotch, then wipe his hand on that customer's hamburger patty as everyone in the kitchen laughed. Trust me, this happens a LOT, and it's why I'm NEVER rude at the drive-thru.
So, it's not hard to imagine that some minimum wage cook who I banned from my car wash, would seek revenge.
wow...I managed to work in a ton of fast food and burger joints and never spit or snot in anyone's food. I did field a lot of complaints and I have given away a handful of meals to people who just wanted to gripe thier way to a free meal. Overall, by a huge margin, people were happy and agreeable and easy to work with in the various resturants.
I have managed those resturants, owned business and probably would put my managerial track record up to anyone's. I have never felt compelled to be a pric# to prove anything to a customer or and employee.
I am sorry you are having this kind of trouble. I am in awe of your business acumen for building a business in a small town that puts you in a position to get that kind of financing. Good on you!